Once, in the far north,
there was a witch of vast primordial power who shared a dream with a human.
Together, they built a magnificent city at the edge of the tundra, whose light
became a beacon to all humanity. Craft and knowledge crystallized in the utopia
birthed by the witch and human’s covenant, but a day came on which the covenant
was broken, and the city was destroyed by the armies of man, its people
massacred. With the dream shattered, the witch returned to her city’s ruins and
sequestered herself among the graves for time uncounted, slowly passing from
human memory in all but the sparse myths shared among the races of men. There
she waited, bound to the ashes of the once-great city.
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